Makeup Tutorial: Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow… And Some Shyness

I realize I’m really uninspiring when it comes to naming my makeup tutorials. Hahaha! I mean, how else can you call an eye makeup tutorial that involves the use of colors purple, blue, green and yellow? I could name it ‘colorful’, but so are most of my tutorials!

When everything is important, nothing is important anymore, right? So purple, blue, green and yellow it shall be.

I wore this look for the NDP Preview 2012, where I went backstage with Singapore bloggers and Instagrammers. Go read all the NDP-related posts! I’m so grateful to have been part of this mega annual event!

There’s nothing NDP-ish about my eye makeup look though – no red, no white, no crescent or stars – only that I really made up for the special occasion. Nothing OTT, my looks are always wearable. Oh maybe I could name this tutorial ‘fireworks’, but that’s kind of forcing it. Lol.

LIP MAKEUP

Lip Balm – Dermalogica Lip Treatment

Lipstick – OCC Lip Tar Grandma; MAC Speed Dial

I LOVED my makeup for the day! <3 <3 <3

The false eyelashes are especially pretty. They look so natural, feel very comfortable and are really inexpensive. Tell you a secret, I’M GONNA SELL THEM IN MY STORE!!! Heh heh. I’ll let you know when the site’s up (very soon)!

I’m Too Shy To Give Out My Card

When I go out on the streets, strangers come up to me and tell me ‘I love your eye makeup’. Sometimes they stare and I know they’re not looking at me as a whole but at my eye makeup coz they’re not even looking into my eyes, but slightly above, at the canvas of colors. For those who talk to me, I would just smile and say ‘thanks!’ but inside my heart there are splashing rainbows and handmade confetti bursting into the abyss of my soul. HAHAHA!!!

Sometimes they would ask if I’m a makeup artist and I would say no. Sometimes they would stop and ask how do I ‘do it’. Maybe I should just invite them to visit bunbunmakeuptips.com. Should I? So embarrassing!! LOL!

I was very shy about putting my face up on the blog initially, as you would have read in this post, but now that I’ve grown accustomed to shamelessly putting my face forward, I’m shy about telling people about my blog. Self-promotion is too…. I don’t know! I’m SHY!!!! OMGwhatiswrongwithme.

My friends are all very proud of me and the blog and they do tell their friends about it. But when they tell a friend about my blog IN FRONT OF ME, I’ll go ‘AHHHH!!! Aiya!!! NO LA!! Shy! Shy!’.

It’s not that I’m not proud of my own blog - I am super proud of it – but I guess it’s an Asian thing (Hahaha ya ya, blame it on the ‘Asian thing’), where we were taught since young and grew up in this culture that does not see promoting oneself blatantly as a virtue. Must be modest.

What are your views? Are you comfortable with telling friends about your blog, if you’re a blogger? Should I tell strangers about my blog when they ask about my makeup?

I love your eyes, it's so beautifull and the colours match so good together :). I understand your shyness so well, it's like reading about myself, haha :). You shouldn't tho, I do think it's a thing that takes some time and courgae, but you'll get there!

I don't think you need to be shy about having such a successful beauty blog, you ought to be proud of it. ;) I do understand how you feel though, only a few of my good friends know I have a beauty blog and for a very long time I was hesitant about putting my face on the blog too. I was worried about the comments I would get. There are nasty people and they are also tonnes of really nice and kind ones. And through all the kind comments I started putting my face on my blog, now there is no looking back. My DH shakes his head when he sees me taking pictures of myself. :)

As for your business card, I think you just to be a little thick skin and give your card. If you want your blog to be successful you need to let people know about it.

Actually whenever I read your tutorials I'm always kind of amazed how can you blend your eyeshadow so smoothly. It's so smoothh. This look is more amazing coz you divide your eyelids into 4 sections, and impressively blended out so smoothhhh. And your lip looks awesome! (Is that the word "awesome" should be used with lip LOL I dunno ...)

Whooppps, Asian Things ... I understand :) If I were you, I would feel shy too HAHA for no reason.